Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 15, 2011
September 14, 2011
September 16, 2011
Transcript:
The average USA supermarket carries 48,780 different items! The Spermaceti oil contained in a sperm whale's head can alternate between a solid and a liquid depending on temperature and pressure. In 1987-1988, Sarah Covington Fulcher ran the perimeter of the continental United States, 11,134 miles, averaging 26 miles, per day!
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FatTonyBalducci over 13 years ago
That’s kinda like my Grandmother……..the Doctor told her to walk 2 miles a day back in 1995 and we haven’t seen her since!
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
“Gone” — Ferlin Husky
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
If Grandmother walks 2 miles straight ahead every day, she should be about halfway around the world by now.She could have walked “over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go”. She would have been back home much sooner.
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
@Fat Tony Balducci,Your amusing comment sort of sounds like one of the lines from a :“Roast”. “When Frank Sinatra was 8 years old, his father took him aside …and left him there.”
tuslog64 over 13 years ago
Some of the US-Canada border is rather rugged too.
jkhandy over 13 years ago
48,750 items, most of which are unfit for human consumption, unless you want diabetes, high cholesterol, rapid weight gain, etc, etc.
bobviously over 13 years ago
I wonder if she was one of those Forrest Gump groupies…
iced tea over 13 years ago
And I can never find lamb chops in the meat department of our supermarket.